Hacker News: shpx

New comment by shpx in "President pardons 9 for Clean Air violations for 'fixing their car'"

shpx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:37:57 +0000

A finite set of symbols (laws) can never express everything a reasonable person would want to be allowed to happen in the world.

New comment by shpx in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

shpx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:15:03 +0000

> The Falcon 9 has [...] 641 successful launches, 2 in-flight failures, 1 partial failure and 1 pre-flight destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9

> Falcon 9 first-stage boosters have been landed and recovered 616 times out of 629 attempts, including synchronized recoveries of the side-boosters of most Falcon Heavy flights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_b...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He...

New comment by shpx in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

shpx — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:47:31 +0000

Maybe it's physically impossible to build a theoretically secure system, just as it's (presumably) impossible to have a cell that isn't susceptible to any virus. Maybe this whole time we've been getting away with a type of security by obscurity, where the obscurity is just no one having the time and focus to actually analyze the code.

New comment by shpx in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

shpx — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:22:13 +0000

As compared with 41 for deno

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%22Se...

With the total number of issues being 16,458 for bun and 14,259 for deno.

New comment by shpx in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

shpx — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:27:38 +0000

It's surprising that Visa and Mastercard are even private companies. I expected that the government would be in charge of money and not let a group of people impose a 1-3% tax on their population. In the US, credit cards account for "71% of nationwide retail sales dollars".

Governments aren't competent enough to do tech stuff well and they would never make something that works in a different country as well as credit cards do, but still.

New comment by shpx in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

shpx — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:37:49 +0000

Computers are feedback loops that ultimately are trying to take up 100% of 100% of people's consciousness seconds, so it makes sense that the winning/dominant ideologies on the internet are just whichever ones cause you to not spend time on anything except the screen.

New comment by shpx in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

shpx — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:31:45 +0000

WhatsApp is one of the buggiest UIs I use daily. Random things like images/messages stacking on top of each other, seeing the HD and low definition videos as two separate things in favorites, never being able to view the HD one, sometimes the messages never scrolling quite to the bottom, just amateur level stuff, I'm a bit impressed with how bad it is.

New comment by shpx in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

shpx — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:42:04 +0000

If I'm reading the order book correctly, right now you can "win" $474,746 on Polymarket with a $4,000 bet if Trump "ceases to be the President" by April 30

https://polymarket.com/event/trump-out-as-president-by-april...

which is effectively an assassination market on him. And there other such crowd-sourced hits on other heads of state.

New comment by shpx in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

shpx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:29:49 +0000

I had a similar emotional outburst where after contributing hundreds of hours to Stack Overflow, when I asked a question of my own, instead of answering an objective yes/no question people just argued with me in the comments about why I could possibly want to do whatever prompted me to ask my question. I delete my account and quit ever contributing to that site right then and there. I think I was just looking for an out and it was ultimately a good thing.

No idea if this is the case here, but I hope the author sticks with this decision. Although, looking at https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/graphs/co... , it doesn't look like he started this project, so I'm not sure it's his place to archive it.

New comment by shpx in "Rebasing in Magit"

shpx — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:00:02 +0000

I want to quit Magit because it's unbearably slow. In a repo with 6000 files `git status` takes 100ms but the Magit equivalent takes 2-4 seconds.

New comment by shpx in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

shpx — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:08:46 +0000

You need to account for inflation.

New comment by shpx in "Facebook is cooked"

shpx — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:52:21 +0000

Facebook is running the same kind of engagement-maximization algorithm on Marketplace postings, so half of my suggested postings when I open Marketplace is girls posing in the clothes they're selling.

New comment by shpx in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

shpx — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:41:36 +0000

Mr. Superintelligence increasing Nick Bostrom's life expectancy to a trillion years but killing everyone else would as well. Why is he showing us the grace of letting us tag along with him into The Singularity in this fantasy just because we happened to be alive at the same time? Is it because he needs someone to do the actual work?

Virology Lectures 2025 [video]

shpx — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pX0x3mC4Io&list=PLGhmZX2NKiNm2iEUtVslIUHTW9i2zAG72

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700998

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by shpx in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

shpx — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:52:35 +0000

In my experience from the couple of times I clicked an IPFS link years ago, it loaded for a long time and never actually loaded anything, failing the first "I wish we could serve static content" part.

If you make it possible for people to donate bandwidth you might just discover no one wants to.

New comment by shpx in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

shpx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:56:33 +0000

On this graph, the most expensive RAM is $12.5 / GB ($400 for DDR5-6000 2x16GB). Apple charges

- $25 / GB ($200 for 8 GB for the M5 MacBook Pro and the M4 MacBook Air)

- $16 / GB ($400 for 24 GB for the cheapest M4 Pro MacBook Pro)

- $12.5 / GB ($200 for 16 GB and then $800 for 64 GB more for the most expensive M4 Pro and M4 Max MacBook Pros)

and Apple's RAM is faster than PC RAM.

New comment by shpx in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

shpx — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:15:21 +0000

That remaining 1% are then actually the most advanced species, since they can continue their billion year existence through a blip of a couple thousand years when the environment became a bit more radioactive. We're so fragile that we're effectively biologically unstable, they're so advanced that they don't even need to know what happened.

New comment by shpx in "Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub"

shpx — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:06:07 +0000

Would've made more sense to add a grey "Edited" to edited releases. Releases are not actually immutable, GitHub could change them. I don't know why you need to use sciency words to say "editing disabled".

New comment by shpx in "Starcloud"

shpx — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:49:41 +0000

Everyone who puts up a persistent bright dot in the night sky should compensate everyone who has to see it with 1 cent for the sensory pollution.

New comment by shpx in "Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys"

shpx — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:05:07 +0000

Dog breeds are not real animals, they're some sort of half-artificial thing created by imperfectly writing some people's desire into another species's genetic code.

If you make an artificial thing that really wants to do some specific thing, like a computer endlessly printing "hello world" millions of times a second, it's not surprising to see it do the thing it was created to do. I wouldn't say the computer "wants" to print hello world, so I don't see the dog as doing what it truly wants to do if it's a genetic predisposition human breeders forced into it. I see the expression of a society of dog breeders and people's idea of a game called "fetch" which was relatively easy to transition a species towards step-by-step using artificial selection.